University: 748 books
Deconstructing Travel
Cultural Perspectives on Tourism
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2004
As a visible marker of globalization, the increased role of travel and tourism in our lives makes it a remarkable force in contemporary culture. Deconstructing Travel provides an easily understood framework of the relationship between travel and culture in our rapidly changing postmodern, postcolonial...
by Vitalij K. Pecharsky, Karl A. Gschneidner, B.S. University of Detroit 1952<br>Ph.D. Iowa State University 1957
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2004
This volume of the Handbook adds five new chapters to the science of rare earths. Two of the chapters deal with intermetallic compounds. An overview of ternary systems containing rare earths, transition metals and indium – Chapter 218 – opens the volume. It is followed by Chapter 219 sorting out...
World-Systems Theory in Practice
Leadership, Production, and Exchange
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 1998
In the quarter century since Wallerstein first developed world systems theory (WST), scholars in a variety of disciplines have adopted the approach to explain intersocietal interaction on a grand scale. These essays bring to light archaeological data and analysis to show that many historic and prehistoric...
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
What happens after a country splits apart? Forty-five years ago Singapore separated from Malaysia. Since then, the two countries have developed along their own paths. Malaysia has given preference to the majority Malay Muslims—the bumiputera, or sons of the soil. Singapore, meanwhile, has tried...
The Idea of a Political Liberalism
Essays on Rawls
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 1999
In this unique volume, some of today's most eminent political philosophers examine the thought of John Rawls, focusing in particular on his most recent work. These original essays explore diverse issues, including the problem of pluralism, the relationship between constitutive commitment and liberal...
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Cosmetic surgery in China has grown rapidly in recent years of dramatic social transition. Facing fierce competition in all spheres of daily life, more and more women consider cosmetic surgery as an investment to gain “beauty capital” to increase opportunities for social and career success. Building...
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Desiring Hong Kong, Consuming South China is a study of the complex and changing cultural patterns in Hong Kong's relationship with the neighbouring mainland. From interviews, TV dramas, media representations and other sources, Eric Ma traces the fading of Hong Kong's once-influential position as...
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Astride the historical maritime silk routes linking India to China, premodern East and Southeast Asia can be viewed as a global region in the making over a long period. Intense Asian commerce in spices, silks, and ceramics placed the region in the forefront of global economic history prior to the...
Creative Canada
A Biographical Dictionary of Twentieth-century Creative and Performing Artists (Volume 2)
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 1972
Did he ever play Hamlet? Has she worked in television? What was the title of his first novel? Under whom did she study? How many children has he? Answers to such questions about contemporary Canadian artists have often been difficult, even impossible, to find. This series has been created to provide...
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
South Korean masculinities have enjoyed dramatically greater influence in recent years in many realms of pan-Asian popular culture, which travels freely in part because of its hybrid trans-nationalistic appeal. This book investigates transcultural consumption of three iconic figures — the middle-aged...
History of Oral History
Foundations and Methodology
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2007
Gathered here are parts I and II of the Handbook of Oral History, which set the benchmark for knowledge of the field. The eminent contributors discuss the history and methodologies of a field that once was the domain of history scholars who were responding to trends within the academy, but which has...
100 Questions, 500 Nations: A Guide to Native America
Covering tribes, treaties, sovereignty, casinos, reservations, Indian health, education, religion, culture and tribal membership
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
*100 Questions, 500 Nations: A Guide to Native America* is by the Native American Journalists Association as part of the Michigan State University School of Journalism series in cultural competence.
This guide has sections on tribes, reservations, sovereignty, treaties, federal...
by Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Seemingly messy and chaotic, the landscapes and urban life of cities in Asia possess an order and hierarchy that often challenges understanding and appreciation. With contributions by a cross-disciplinary group of authors, Messy Urbanism: Understanding the “Other” Cities of Asia examines a range...
by Stephen Davies, Hong Kong University Press
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In December 1846, the Keying, a Chinese junk purchased by British investors, set sail from Hong Kong for London. Named after the Chinese Imperial Commissioner who had signed away Hong Kong to the British, manned by a Chinese and European crew, and carrying a travelling exhibition of Chinese items,...